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Pomeroy hasn't come home for his family--not for his stepmother about to marry the low-rent local politician Curtis Peavey, whose goons keep rearranging his caps--but to join his sweetheart Catherine, a woman he may or may not be married to. Stay away, she warns: "You called me deep-dish Southern plastic in a national publication!" She is a lesbian now, she maintains, having taken up with the bisexual Marcelline. Chet considers this only vaguely through a menthol cocaine haze. Then he nails his hand to her door...
...Plate Specials and exiles from the Bay of Pigs than McGuane. A drug bust is "too Cuban for words." Pomeroy's dog "kills a lizard; then, overcome with remorse, tips over in the palm shadows for a troubled snooze." The violence is lovingly plotted, coldly calculated, but respected. Councilman Peavey sends Nylon Pindar the thug to straighten Chet...
...secretive postures of Andrew Wyeth's human subjects, painted looking away or from the back. There is more to these poses than literary anecdote, though they dwindle to that when Wyeth's delicacy falters. But at his best, his images become hermetic, despite their apparent candor; a peavey or a hanging cornhusk seems to brim with undisclosed biography. When the elusiveness at the core of his imagination reacts with his virtuoso power of rendering the soberest nuance of light, texture and weight, Wyeth becomes a formidable artist...
...first full week of the Administration's temporary price freeze brought an atmosphere of urgency to the assault on inflation. In a sudden show of toughness, the Cost of Living Council ordered three companies-Peavey (farm supplies), Stokely-Van Camp (processed food) and International Utilities (gas and electricity)-to roll back prices raised in violation of regulations during Phase II. The council plans soon to order additional rollbacks of price increases posted during this year's first quarter in at least seven industries...
...will raise the price of a 20? loaf of white bread to 27?, two slices of Vio bread per meal will supply 25% of all the protein an adult needs for a day. More than 8,000,000 loaves have been test-marketed by Minneapolis' F. H. Peavey & Co., which will soon market V-10 flour nationally...